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Feminist politics on the farm : rural Catholic women in southern Quebec and southwestern France / Naomi Black and Gail Cuthbert Brandt

Black, Naomi [Verfasser] [1935-] ; Brandt, Gail Cuthbert

Montreal, Quâe. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 295 pages) : maps

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index

978-0-7735-6766-5 ; 0-7735-6766-6

 

"Feminist Politics on the Farm examines rural women's organizations, politics, feminism, agricultural life, and personal relations. The women studied were clearly progressive in their opinions and the authors show that their original and varied opinions cast doubt on much of the standard literature about non-elite women's understanding of mainstream politics and the women's movement. These rural women differed significantly from the usual stereotypes of farm women as apolitical and conservative. Nor were they the reactionaries implied by theories of modernization. Instead, they were supportive of women's political activism, and of their equality and self-assertiveness, and were as feminist as other women in Canada and France."--Jacket.